Project / Collection: Additional Manuscripts / Language: Turkish, Ottoman / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736, ff 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r
Title:: Risale-yi Şecaiye رساله شجاعیه
Scope & Content:: An Ottoman Turkish translation of an Arabic treatise discussing how a perfect mounted soldier should handle his weapons in battle. The text of this work was copied into blank spaces left for illustrations to the Arabic treatise for which the volume was originally created. (see Add MS 20736, ff. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 37r, 38r, 39r, 40r, 45r, 47r, 50r, 51r, 52r, 53r, 54v, 56r, 57r, 58r, 59r, 59v, 60v, 61v, 63r, 64r, 65r, 65v, 66v, 74r, 75v, 78r, 78v, 79r, 81v, 82r, 87v, 88r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5968
Title:: Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the well-known tale entitled in Arabic Ḥikāyat arbaᶜīn ṣubḥ wa masāᵓ,by Aḥmad Maṣrī. The story is also commonly known as The Story of the Forty Viziers (Hikayet-i Kırk Vezir or Kırk Vezir Hikayesi). It is an expansion of an old Indian tale, ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1143
Extent:: 1 text, 152 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5969
Title:: [Chronicle of the Ottoman Dynasty]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a chronicle of the Ottoman dynasty from its origins to 956 AH (1549-50 CE) and is slightly imperfect at both the beginning and end. The author's name does not appear in either this copy or in the printed versions; nor is it mentioned in catalogues of other copies elsewhere. ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 104 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5973
Title:: Şerh-i Dibaçe-yi Gülistan - شرح دیباجۀ کلستان
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish commentary on the preface to the Gulistān of Saᶜdī by Mahmud İbn-i Osman İbn-i Ali el-Lami'i (f 3v). Lami'i was a native of Bursa and the son of Osman Çelebi, who had been Defterdar for Sultan Beyazit II. After completing the usual course of studies, he ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 960
Extent:: 1 text, 83 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5978
Title:: [Usul-name] - [اصول نامه]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a copy of the Usul-name, also known as the Kitab-i Usul, of Yahya Bey of the Dukagjini family of Albania. It was likely composed during his exile to the Sancak of Zvornik, Bosnia. The current manuscript was likely copied in the 17th century.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 100 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5979
Title:: [Gencine-yi Raz] - [كنجنۀ راز]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the poem Gencine-yi Raz by Yahya Bey of the Dukagjini family of Albania. It was likely composed during his exile in the Sancak of Zvornik, Bosnia. It contains the same prose heading as the text in Or 1147, and was copied in Zulkaade 1002 AH (July-August 1594 CE).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1002
Extent:: 1 text, 83 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5983
Title:: [Ottoman Turkish Mecmua]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following five texts : (I) ff 8v-14v : Kitabü'r-remel fi Şeyh ez-Zenati Rahmet Allah aleyhi, a book of remel authored by Abdullah İbn-i Mehmet İbn-i Osman Zenati el-Magribi ; (II) ff 16v-47v : Haza Kitab-i Tali'-i Mevlut, a treatise on horoscopes. Hayreddin the astro...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1193
Extent:: 5 texts, 186 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5985
Title:: Hayriname - خيرى نامه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Hayriname, a poem containing moral precepts and rules of life by Yusuf Nabi. It is addressed to the son of the poet, Ebü'l-hayr Mehmet Çelebi, who, it appears from the prologue, was born in his father's fifty-fourth year and was eight years old at the time of composition...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1116
Extent:: 1 text, 46 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5986
Title:: Beşaretname - بشارىنامه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a Hurufi tract treating especially the mystical meaning hidden behind the letters of the Qur'an, composed by Refi'i. The author designates himself by his mahlas only, which occurs on ff 27r, 29v, and 34r. He appears to have been a disciple of Seyit İmadüddin Nesimi, a well...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 text, 34 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 5989
Title:: [Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the following five texts : (I) (ff 2v-5r) : Hilyetü'n-Nebi, a fragment of the complete text composed by Hakani. This section corresponds to ff 9r-17r in Add MS 7936 ; (II) (ff 5v-65v) : A work on the lives and merits of the ashab of the Prophet Muhammad صلعم and the earl...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1052
Extent:: 5 texts, 187 pages

Search